Seamless Africa brings the best and the brightest together within the industry to ignite transformation by challenging new thinking that drives innovation.

I am Ayobami Adegoke, a graduate of electronic and electrical engineering from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Oyo state. I also hold an MBA in Financial Management from the same university.I have over 9 years working experience with First Bank of Nigeria Limited, where I have been...

Ms Faith Adesemowo, CEO, Social Lender

Faith has over 7 years’ experience with a background in sales, structured & project finance. She has worked in Investment Banking at BGL Plc. She is a result driven investment banking professional and has pioneered Start-ups. She left BGL with the vision to focus on Social Lender. Social lender ...

Mr Cedric Atangana, CEO and Founder, WeCashUp

My name is Cedric ATANGANA, 24, Cameroonian, CEO of INFINITY SPACE, a FinTech startup born in Douala in Cameroon, raised up in Nairobi in Kenya, also based in Marseille in France and won the prize of best startup in the World at the Google I/O Pitch Night in the Silicon Valley in the USA.I learned...

Stone Atwine, Co-founder & CEO, useremit.com

Stone Atwine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of useremit.com, a payments company that is specializing in mobile financial services targeting international remittances, intra-network money transfers, bill payments, conditional transfers, and bulk payments in Africa.Stone is also a founder and advisor...

Mark's expertise is in delivering strategic and innovative solutions to global markets by utilising his wealth of experience in sales, marketing and product development within the financial and tech sectors. He has worked in the USA, Europe and the Philippines, and is responsible for driving...

Ignatius Cobbina is an experienced banker with a strong background in Transaction Banking, electronic Banking and payments with over 20 years of experience. His banking carrier has also seen him work in Audit, Internal Control and Operations.He was at the forefront of one of the first payments...

Gezahegn Dugassa is a senior Electrical Engineer with a progressive and professional experience of two decades in Information Technology and Telecom. His core expertise spans Enterprise Information systems Security, IT Project Managements and Delivery, Infrastructure Solutions mainly for the...

Mohamed El Gazzar is Deputy General Manager, Head of Retail Collections and Recovery, Risk Management Division at Alexbank, a bank of Intesa Sanpaolo. He is banking professional with over 20 years of financial experience out of which 14 are focused on Payments and Consumer Banking. Known for...

Chief Development Officer, GroFinFormer Chief Executive Officer, National Commercial Bank LtdAshraf has over 20 years’ combined experience in Banking, financial services, FMCG and technology industries. He has worked for multinational and local corporations such as BAT Industries and the Currimjee...

Mr Alexander Gebregziabher, CIO, Wegagen Bank

My name is Alexander G. Berhe who is born in May 1978, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Now married and a father of three. I have earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science by October 2002 and then Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Addis Ababa, University in October 2008. I have also ...

Mr David Gerbrands, Head Banking Advisory, Rabobank

David Gerbrands (1970), currently Head of Banking Advisory Services at Rabo Development, started at Rabobank in 1999 where he held various (management) positions in operations, securities services, International Dutch Desk Network (responsible for providing support to Rabo SMEs in Europe, Asia and...

Jonas Hedman is an Associate Professor at the Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research interest concerns the digital transformation in the finance sector and includes topics such as cashless society, fintech revolution, payment eco-systems, payment...

Mr Phil Hogg, Author, The Challenging Payments Ecosystem

Phil Hogg is a Payments Executive who is recognized for building and commercializing multi-million dollar payment processing programs with a focus on collaboration, strategic alliances and channel programs. Phil is General Manager, Merchant Services, with Everlink Payment Services where he is...

Mr Patrick Katumbay, Branch Manager, Trust Merchant Bank Ltd

Kalala Katumbayi Patrick is of Congolese nationality and was born on the 28th of August 1981 in Lubumbashi (Province of Katanga), the richest province in the country.He did as university studies, the facility of Social Science, Politics & Administration at the University of Kinshasa, majoring...

Ms Robyn King, Solutions Head for Payments, FNB

Robyn King is a payments professional with experience in banking and card payments in the South African marketKey Skills and Competencies include:Leadership: Robyn is able to lead and shape diverse groups of people and create high-performing teams within a short space of time. Innovation: A thread...

Kirsi has had a diverse and successful career in Corporate, Institutional & Transaction banking management. Kirsi was recently ranked as a Global Fintech Top100 Influencer by Oanalytica and she is known as a thought leader in digitalization disruption, innovation & change management as well ...

Mr Romain Lutaladio, Deputy Head of Branch, Procredit Congo

Romain Lutaladio Nlemvo is of Congolese nationality and was born on the 17th of March 1983 in Mbanza-Ngungu (Province of Bas Congo ). He did as university studies, the facility of Economics and Development at the Catholic University of Congo, majoring in Banking and Finance option, awarded with...

Ms Tricia Martinez, Founder & CEO, Wala

Tricia Martinez is a social entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Wala, adigital banking platform for underbanked consumers in emerging markets.Prior to Wala, Tricia founded two impact companies and devoted her time tosocially innovative initiatives in areas including...

Agrippa is has over twenty years financial services experience and is an Executive Director – Retail Banking & e-Commerce with FBC Bank in Zimbabwe. Aside of primary distribution he manages innovation and the migration of banking and payments to emerging digital platforms. He is a leading...

Patrick Muhire, CEO & Founder, Vugapay

Patrick Muhire has years of experience in diverse roles within e-commerce, banking, finance, strategy mainly Expertise in Payments integrationsAbility to design and implement a payments playbook with standard and alternative payment methods for global portfolios.In 2015 Patrick and his partner...

Mr David Ndome, Head of Digital& Proximity Banking, National Bank of Kenya

David Ndome has over Ten Years banking experience in the Leadership, Development and Management of Retail Banking and Alternative Banking Channels; which he prefers as Primary Banking Channels due to their growing importance in modern banking. He was in charge of Retail Sales and Agent Banking...

Johnson holds a Bachelors Business Administration and He has ten years in banking experience , having worked in business Development, project managment and Innovation functions. He is also among the pioneer of Agency Banking in Kenya and started Electronic payments department for KCB Bank. Verse...

Mr Percy Opio, Information Technology Manager, Equity Bank

Dr Percy Opio is a practitioner scholar, ICT professional, strategic leadership and foresights expert, and author of The Future of Banking in Kenya. He has over 10 years’ experience in the banking industry at management and executive management levels where he spearheaded the initiation and...

Mr Tayo Oviosu, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pagatech

Tayo has over sixteen years of experience in a variety of technical and business roles in High-tech and Private Equity. Most recently, he was Vice President at Travant Capital Partners where he was responsible for executing the firm‘s investment strategy in West Africa.Prior to joining...

Ms Elizabeth Rossiello, Chief Executive Officer, BitPesa

Elizabeth is the CEO and Founder of BitPesa, a pan-African digital FX and payment platform. She founded BitPesa in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2013 and has since grown the business across six African countries. BitPesa is also licensed by the FCA in the UK as an Authorized Payment Institution and...

Mr Brad van Leeuwen, CTO, Dopay

Brad is currently Chief Partnerships Officer at dopay, where he is responsible for strategic partnerships with financial service providers, technology partners and multinational clients. There are two billion people that have a job but no bank account. This means that their employers have no...

Mr Vincent Wakaba, Head, Mobile Banking, Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Wakaba has spent close to 10 years in the banking industry working in developing and implementing various alternative banking channels from Cards to Internet and now Mobile banking. As the Head of Mobile Banking for Co-operative Bank of Kenya, he is tasked to drive the uptake and continued success...

Mr Leonard Waweru Kuria, CEO, iNuka Pap

Born on the 17th of May 1986, Waweru Kuria began his entrepreneurial journey, with his first company Eye-track systems a vehicle security company. Importing the gadgets from china, he made profit margins of over 500%. The business still exists with four employees currently, but making lesser...

Mr Olajide Abiola, CEO, KiaKia

Olajide Abiola has a background in Computer Science, with speciality in data science and Statistics. He has a combined professional working experience of over 8 years in both the government and private sectors revolving around Information technology. He has worked as a Computer Programmer for the...

Mr Lorien Gamaroff, Chief Executive Officer, Bankymoon

Lorien Gamaroff is the CEO and founder of Bankymoon, a software company providing blockchain solutions to the financial services and other industries. He advises government and educates banks and other corporates on the all aspects of Blockchain technologies. He developed the world's first...

Mr Lance Mambondiani, CEO, Steward Bank

Dr Lance Shingai Mambondiani is Chief Executive Officer at Steward Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Econet Wireless Limited. He joined the bank in July 2013 as Business Development & Strategy Executive. He was appointed Acting CEO in February 2015 and confirmed as substantive CEO in August...

Mr Aman Narain, CEO International, BankBazaar.com

Aman is the Chief Executive of Bank Bazaar International, India’s leading financial website backed by Amazon, Fidelity Growth Partners & Sequoia. Prior to this he was the Global Head of Digital Banking for Standard Chartered with responsibility for all direct to consumer channels, including...

Mr Andrew Takyi-Appiah, Managing Director, Zeepay

Andrew joins Zeepay as a Co-Founder and Managing Director, he is a subject matter expert on Banking and Mobile Payments and comes on board with over 15years experience in Banking and Business Development. Andrew’s experience spans the world of Marketing and Banking, and has held various carriers...

Mr Marc Wesselink, Managing Director, Start-up Boot Camp

About Marc: Managing Partner @Startupbootcamp: Serial Entrepreneur, started 12 companies in FMCG, Home Electronics, Healthcare, E-Commerce, HR and Finance, failed 4 times. Because of this, he has an in depth knowledge on many fields which can help entrepreneurs to maintain a 360 degree view on...

Mr Japie Britz, Manager: Acquiring, Capitec

I have been working at Capitec Bank since March 2008. I Started at Capitec as an Architect in the Merchant Acquiring (IT). I have been working in Banking since 2002 where I started as an integration programmer. I moved over to card transaction switching in 2004 where I worked at Card payment...

Roland Coulon is the former Chief Executive Officer of AccessBank Tanzania with a special focus on microfinance. Under his 5-year leadership the bank quadrupled its assets (USD 26m to USD 100m) and more-than-quadrupled its loan portfolio (USD 16m to USD 72m) while engaging into a long term process...

Mr Oyebode Oyegoke-Akande, Head of Cards, Ecobank Nigeria

Oyegoke-Akande Oyebode is one of the industry leaders when it comes to electronic banking in Nigeria, he manages the Card products in Ecobank Nigeria Limited His work experience is broad and holistic, covering all spheres of electronic payments and his one of the promoters of digital convergence as ...

Mr Pablo Gasalla, Vice President, Spanish Association of Fintech

Mr Robert Giles, Head of Retail Banking, Diamond Bank

Current Position and Responsibilities Rob Leads the Retail Banking businesses at Diamond Bank PLC. Diamond Bank is headquartered in Nigeria and also has operations in Benin, Togo, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom. Rob’s responsibilities include Consumer Banking, Emerging Businesses...

Mr Chijioke Dozie, CEO & Co-Founder, OneFi

Chijioke is currently the Co-Founder/CEO of OneFI a pioneer fintech provider of micro-loans in Nigeria. OneFi is the largest provider of loans via smartphones in Nigeria through its Paylater brand. Chijioke was previously an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...

Oyetunde Adeyinka Adebayo Oyekunle was born in Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria on 13th of October 1972 to a royal family of the Adeoye Alfred Oyekunle and Adesola Oyekunle with roots in Isara-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He obtained his First School Leaving Certificate at Ogudu Primary School, Lagos and...

Mr Uzoma Dozie, Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Bank

Mr. Uzoma Dozie is the Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank. Mr. Dozie has about 20 years of banking experience in three different financial institutions in Nigeria. He joined the Bank in 1998 as an Assistant Manager and Head of Diamond Bank’s Oil and Gas Unit. In 2000, Mr. Dozie became the...

Mr Olivier Duterme, Executive, Banque Commerciale Du Congo Sarl

More than twenty five years’ experience in banking industry, in various positions related to retail, personal and private banking and on line brokerage, in Belgium and Switzerland (ING Bank), France (ING Ferri Bank and Barclays Banque France) and DRC (Rawbank and BCDC).Founder and Board Member of...

Okigbo is a pioneering digital innovator in Nigeria and an advocate of technology entrepreneurship to foster greater digital inclusion on the continent. Over the last 25 years he co-founded InfoSoft Nigeria one of the country’s leading software development firms, worked with firms as diverse as...

Ricardo Platt is currently the Executive Head of Department for Vodacom Financial Services. He was intricately involved in the deployment of M-Pesa business case in South Africa, particularly as it related to the Enterprise applications of the platform. Ricardo joined Vodacom from Payfare (Pty)...

Mr Alfraha Mmare, Head of Cards, Barclays Bank

Seasoned Card (Issuing and Acquiring) Professional with over 20 years experience in card acquiring(POS,recurring payments and Ecommerce) and issuing(debit , credit and prepaid).Widely knowledgeable and experienced in card business ranging from sales, relationship and portfolio...

Mr Nathaniel Clarke, Head of Mobile Money, TYME

Nathaniel is a founding member of TYME Capital, a fintech company that designs, builds, and operates digital banks. Propositions launched by TYME include eBank in Namibia (acquired by FNB in October 2016), MTN Mobile Money in South Africa, and PnP Money Transfer. In early 2015 TYME was acquired...

Ms Faith Kobusingye, Head of Product Development, I and M Bank Rwanda

Faith Kobusingye has over 12 years working experience in various aspects under the Retail Banking and Product Development space. She has built her experience through various roles that include; Retail Sales and Sales Management, Product development, Strategic Marketing, Project Management, and...

Innocent Bagamba Muhizi is a Technology and Business Executive with 14 years of industry experience both in the Public and Private sector. He has enormous skills and capabilities in managing and delivering business strategies under complex corporate environments. He is currently the Regional CIO...

Jason Viljoen, Head Mobile Payments, FNB

Background;Jason holds a Bachelor of Economics degree, and a postgraduate Honours Degree in Information Systems from Rhodes University.He has been with First National Bank (FNB) for 10 years, playing a key role in many strategic and innovative programmes.These programmes include; Channel Agnostic...

Ms Jana Marais, Editor, Media24

Jana Marais joined finweek as editor in 2014 and previously worked for Bloomberg, Sunday Times, The Africa Report and Metal Bulletin. She holds degrees in accounting and journalism from the University of Stellenbosch and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

Simon Mungai is the Head - Information & Communication Technology in Jamii Bora Bank Limited and has vast experience in the ICT field in the areas of IT service Management, IT Governance and ICT Systems Controls. He has provided various Boards, through the Innovation and Technology Committees;...

Mr Diveshan Moodley, Special Projects, Uber

Diveshan Moodley is on a mission to expand on the efficiencies created by Uber in South Africa. His career includes time spent working both within consulting and investment banking, implementing numerous power and infrastructure projects across Africa, including the first project-financed gas power ...

Saul Chin'anga is currently the Head of Electronic Banking and Card Services at CBZ BANK, Zimbabwe. He is responsible for all digital channels as well as agency banking. Saul is a carrier banker and has 24 years in the Retail Banking sector. His passion is to develop an efficient and reliable...

Mr Edward Kiptoo, SVP Information Security Lead, Citibank

Edward Kiptoo received a BSc Computer Science (First Class) from Egerton University, Kenya and Master of Business Leadership (UNISA), South Africa and is currently a Senior Vice President and Lead Information Security Officer for Citibank, Middle East and Africa division. He is a strong and...

Melaku Kebede, Vice President Systems & E-Banking, United Bank Sc

Mr. Melaku Kebede is currently Vice President, Systems & E-Banking of United Bank S.C. (one of the top private Bank in Ethiopia). Formerly, he was also Vice President Technology for Zemen Bank S.C. in Ethiopia. Before his 11+ services in banking industry, he was Registrar, Senate Member and...

Ms Pat Thakur, Editorial and Regional Director, MEA, The Economist

Pratibha Thaker leads The Economist Intelligence Unit's Middle East and Africa team and is also the overall manager of the other regional teams. She is responsible for establishing a clear vision of objectives, activities and products that will add value for stakeholders. Directly managing a...

Rostan Schwab is Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. He is in charge of TMT investments for Sub-Saharan Africa. Rostan is a French and Brazilian national. He started his professional career in 1995 as a junior auditor at Arthur ...

Dato’ Arif was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1955. He obtained a Master Degree in Applied Mathematics from Karachi University. In the 80’s he worked for 8 years in Pakistan, as the Head of Computer Division in the Cotton Export Corporation, the largest GLC in Pakistan. Dato’ Arif was the Head of...

Geraldine Mitchley joined Visa Inc, a global payments technology company, as Director of Emerging Products & Innovation – Africa in February 2012. Based in Visa Sub-Sahara Africa’s head office in Johannesburg, Geraldine is responsible for product management and strategy in areas such as...

Ms Alix Murphy, Director of Mobile Partnerships, WorldRemit

A leading Mobile Money specialist, Alix helps build and support commercial relationships with telecoms operators all over the world. Before WorldRemit, Alix was at the GSMA, where she analysed trends in Mobile Money and digital identity, and consulted mobile operators on revenue opportunities. She ...